To:G. I. SAFAROV

Written:Written on August 7, 1921Published:First published, but not in full, in the Fourth (Russian) Edition of theCollected Works.

      Sent to Tashkent.

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	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1976],

      Moscow,Volume 35,

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ComradeSafarov,

Thankyou very much for the
pamphlet[1]and other
material.

Weare sending Joffe to make an attempt tocombineyour line and Tomsky’s.

Thatmustbe done.

Unquestionablygrain and meat to Moscow,first and
foremost.

Forthis purpose, both the “New Economic Policy” in
general and anumberof concessions and bonuses to the
merchants.

Atthe same time, systematic and maximum concern
for the Moslem poor, for their organisation and education.

Sucha policy can and must be worked out andfixed(in
a number of themost precisedirectives).

Itmust be a model for thewholeEast.

Bestgreetings.

Yours,Lenin

P.S.After the line has been worked out, you, too, will
probably be granted leave.

[1]Referenceis to Safarov’s pamphletOcheredniye voprosy natsionalnoi
politiki(Current Questions of the Nationalities Policy) published
in 1921.